Autodesk Revit Essentials

Master the fundamentals of BIM and Revit with our Revit Essentials training. Learn key techniques for architectural and structural design, and gain a comprehensive understanding of the Revit application. This beginner-friendly course will help you design, analyze, document and visualize building projects with confidence.

The Revit training for beginners, teaches the concepts behind BIM and key techniques in Revit for architectural and structural design.

Autodesk Revit provides the tools you need to design, build and maintain high quality, energy efficient buildings. It supports BIM workflows, and provides comprehensive features for the entire construction project.

This Revit Essentials training provides a thorough grounding in the application. On completion, you will be able to use Revit to take a project from conceptual through the stages of design, analysis, documentation and visualization.

Course Content:

• Lesson 1: Building Information Modelling (BIM)
  • Introduction to BIM
• Lesson 2: Revit basics
  • Exploring the user interface
  • Working with Revit elements and families
• Lesson 3: Viewing the structural model
  • Working with views
  • Controlling object visibility
  • Working with elevation and section views
  • Working with 3D views
• Lesson 4: Starting a new project
  • Setting up a project
  • Setting up view templates
  • Defining discipline settings
  • Importing typical DWG details
  • Linking a Revit model
  • Coordinating linked projects
  • Adding and modifying levels
  • Creating and modifying grids
• Lesson 5: Detailing and drafting
  • Creating callout views
  • Working with text and tags
  • Working with detail views
  • Working with drafting views
  • Working with CAD details
• Lesson 6: Annotations and schedules
  • Adding dimensions
  • Working with text and tags
  • Creating legends
  • Working with schedules
• Lesson 7: Construction documentation
  • Working with sheets and title blocks
  • Printing sheets
  • Exporting content to CAD formats
• Lesson 8: The Basics of the Building Model – columns and walls
  • Adding and modifying walls
  • Working with compound and vertically compound walls
  • Using Editing commands
  • Working with doors
  • Adding and modifying windows
• Lesson 9: Frames
  • Adding floor framing
  • Working with beams and beam systems
  • Working with structural steel frames
  • Working with structural concrete beams
• Lesson 10: Floors and roofs
  • Adding floors
  • Creating roofs and adding structural framing
• Lesson 11: Foundations
  • Adding foundations
• Lesson 12: Stairs and ramps
  • Creating stairs
  • Creating ramps
• Lesson 13: Loading Additional Building Components
  • Adding and modifying component families
• Lesson 14: Viewing the Building Model
  • Managing views
  • Controlling object visibility
  • Working with section and elevation views
  • Creating and modifying 3D views
• Lesson 15: Dimensions and constraints
  • Working with dimensions
  • Applying and removing constraints
• Lesson 16: Developing the building model
  • Creating and modifying floors
  • Adding and modifying ceilings
  • Adding and modifying roofs
• Lesson 17: Presentation and visualisation techniques
  • Working with graphics
  • Enhancing views